Bookings are now being taken for Icepops: International Copyright-Literacy Event with Playful Opportunities for Practitioners and Scholars, which will focus on creative approaches to copyright education, information literacy and scholarly communication. This one-day event will be held on Tuesday 3rd April 2018 at the University of Liverpool and will be the first satellite event run as part of the LILAC […]
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Sarah George is a subject librarian at the University of Bradford. In 2017 she gained National Teaching Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) for recognition of the information literacy work that she is carrying out in her workplace. Such information literacy work allows librarians working in Higher Education to apply to the HEA to seek
A systematic review, published in September this year, has found compelling evidence that information literacy training is effective and well received across a range of delivery formats. Below, Dr. Alison Weightman of Cardiff University gives us a summary of the conclusions drawn from the systematic review, the full results of which were recently published in Evidence Based
To be in with a chance of winning some prosecco and chocolates tweet a picture of you using games in your teaching, using the hashtag #GlobalMILWeekGames. The last day for entry is tomorrow, 1st November 2017. Winners will be announced on Friday 3rd November. This is a great way to share your practice with others and
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Aston Teachmeet on ‘Supporting online learners, what works? A discussion of innovative methods in providing distance learners with information literacy and library skills’ Joe Carey, Enquiries Assistant at Aston University Library, has kindly provided a report on their recent Library Teachmeet event, sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group. Our recent Teachmeet came at an
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George Smith, Graduate Library Assistant at Aberystwyth University Library, has kindly provided a report on their recent Library TeachMeet event, which was hosted by the University and sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group. Aberystwyth Library TeachMeet: “Information Literacy in the Age of Fake News” This year’s theme at the Aberystwyth LibTeachMeet was “Information Literacy in the Age of
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The Information Literacy Journal Club will once again be discussing a reading next week – Thursday 11th May 2017 at 8pm. The article to be discussed is ‘School libraries, political information and information literacy provision: findings from a Scottish study’. Smith, L.N. Journal of Information Literacy, 2016, 10(2), pp.3-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.11645/10.2.2097 Full details: http://infolitjournalclub.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/school-libraries-political-information.html
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The next information literacy online journal club discussion will take place on Thursday 30th March at 8pm BST (4pm EST) on the blog: http://infolitjournalclub.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/flipping-classroom-in-business-and.html Anyone can join! Participants aim to read at least some of the article in advance, then come along and join in the discussion, with each other and the authors, by adding
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The next Information Literacy Journal Club discussion is taking place this Thursday, March 16th, starting at 8pm UK time (4pm EST, 9pm Norway). The article chosen for discussion is “An assessment of library instruction: its influence on search behaviour of first- and third-year students” by Torunn Skofsrud Boger, Hanne Dybvik, Anne-Lise Eng and Else Helene Norheim,
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The Student Learning & Information Literacy (SLILC) committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has today published a white paper on global perspectives on information literacy. The white paper contains chapters written by practitioners and researchers from around the globe on their insights and practice. View more details, and download the free
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